Craig Timberg reports: Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations…
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Yahoo’s first transparency report
Yahoo has issued its first transparency report. It covers the period January 1, 2013 through June 30, 2013. In its overview to the report, Yahoo’s counsel Ron Bell notes that requests for user data impact “comprised less than one one-hundredth of one percent (<.01%) of our worldwide user base.” Zach Miners of Computerworld recaps the report, but…
How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
Andy Greenberg and Ryan Mac profile Alex Karp of Palantir, and delve into the privacy implications of the firm’s work. It’s an interesting read on Forbes.
In Privacy Cases, Google Defends Email Snooping
Julia Love reports: As lawyers for Google Inc. fought to dismiss a spate of privacy claims, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh pressed them to explain how scanning messages sent through Gmail to target advertisements falls under the company’s “ordinary course of business” as an email provider. Google lawyers urged Koh on Thursday to dispense with…